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Depart your hotel or cruise ship to take a tour to the ancient town of Pompeii. Along the way, stop in places such as Positano to view the landscape and Sorrento to do a little shopping. Accompanied by your driver and private guide, if option selected, you will learn all about these quaint areas, all the while taking in the Mediterranean ambiance.
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Duration: 8 to 9 hours
Starts: Naples, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Depart your hotel or cruise ship to take a tour to the ancient town of Pompeii. Along the way, stop in places such as Positano to view the landscape and Sorrento to do a little shopping. Accompanied by your driver and private guide, if option selected, you will learn all about these quaint areas, all the while taking in the Mediterranean ambiance.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Pompeii Archaeological Park, Porta Marina (via Villa dei Misteri), 80045 Pompeii Italy
They will be visiting the ruins of the ancient Roman town of Pompeii
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Pompei – Porta Marina, Piazza Porta Marina Inferiore, 80045 Pompei NA, Italy
This gate provides access to the west of the city and it is the most impressive among the seven gates of Pompeii.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Forum, Via Villa dei Misteri, 80045 Pompeii Italy
The Civil Forum is the core of daily life of the city and is the focal point of all the main public buildings for city administration and justice, business management, and trade activities such as markets, as well as the main places of citizen worship.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Basilica, Vicolo Delle Terme 2, 80045 Pompeii Italy
This space was used to carry out business and for the administration of justice. It is accessed from the Forum through five entrances separated by tuff pillars
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Thermopolium, Via delle Terme, 80045 Pompei NA, Italy
This was a small cook-shops where hot food was sold
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Casa del Fauno, Via Villa Dei Misteri 2, 80045 Pompeii Italy
It is one of the larger houses of Pompeii, covering an entire block of about 3000 sqm and, according to its original layout, it dates back to the 2nd century BC.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: House of the Vettii, Vicolo dei Vetti, Pompeii Italy
The house, one of the richest and most famous in Pompeii, is under the protection of Priapus, the god of prosperity, painted to the right of the door, symbolizing the economic success of the owners, the brothers Aulus Vettius Restitutus and Aulus Vettius Conviva liberti, who became rich through trade.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Stabian Baths (Terme Stabiane), Via Del Foro, 26, Pompeii Italy
The pool is found to the left, whereas a colonnade is found to the right, which leads to the men’s quarters, which are split into the apodyterium (dressing room), with the frigidarium (for cold baths), which leads to the tepidarium (for medium temperature baths) and then to the calidarium (for hot baths).
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Via Villa Dei Misteri 2 Approximately Two Blocks East of The Forum at The Intersection of Vico del Lupanare and Vico del Balcone Pensile, 80045 Pompeii Italy
The Brothel
The prostitutes in the brothel were mostly Greek and Oriental slaves who were paid between two and eight Asses (a glass of wine cost one Ass) for their services.
The building has two floors. The homes of the owner and the slaves are at the top and there are five rooms at the bottom, all fitted with a built-in bed, on both sides of the corridor that connects the two entrances of the ground floor. The rooms were closed by a curtain. A latrine is seen at the end of the corridor, under the staircase.
Small paintings with erotic depictions on the walls of the central corridor informed customers of the activities that took place within the Lupanare.
The brothel is named from lupa, a Latin word meaning ‘prostitute’.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Teatro Grande, Via Paganora 19/A, Pompeii Italy
The Grand Theatre was built by exploiting the natural slope of the hill for the construction of the auditorium. The staircase was separated into three areas with corridors, which were in turn divided into five sectors, and was based on a passage with a barrel vault.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Anfiteatro Romano, Via Plinio 169, 80045 Pompeii Italy
This amphitheatre is the oldest among those known from the Roman times. Built in 70 BC, just before the colony was founded, on the initiative of magistrates Caius Quinctius Valgus and Marcus Porcius who also had the Odeon built
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Amalfi Coast, 84011 Italy
Visiting the quaint village-town of Positano
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Stop At: Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta, Piazza Flavio Gioia, 84017 Positano SA, Italy
The church of Santa Maria Assunta features a dome made of majolica tiles as well as a thirteenth-century Byzantine icon of a black Madonna.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Spiaggia Grande, Positano Italy
Positano main beach
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Piazza Tasso, 80067, Sorrento Italy
Visiting the vibrant town of Sorrento.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes
Stop At: Via San Cesareo, 80067, Sorrento Italy
Shopping road
Duration: 20 minutes